Quote of the Day

Without Googling, can you tell me what movie this comes from?

"This ain't a bridge--it's termites holding hands!"

First one to get it wins nothing but bragging rights.

I Love You Guys

Happy Thanksgiving.

I'm thankful that my family and friends are healthy, and that I am able to spend the day with my niece and nephew, watching the Peanuts on TV.

What are you thankful for?

November 23, 1897

On this date, former slave Andrew Beard patented the "jenny coupler", which is still in use to hook railroad cars together safely.

Any Given Friday Quote

"I am beyond logic and rationality."

-Imelda Marcos

Thursday And So On Quote

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."

-Rabindranath Tagore

Wednesday After My Logic Test Quote

"But, logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities."

-Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

Tuesday Before My Logic Test Quote

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

November 14, 1940

On this date, the English town of Coventry was devastated by German bombers. Churchill knew about the attack ahead of time but did not alert town officials.

Why? Because an evacuation of the town would have been communicated to Germany by the pilots, and Hitler would have known that England was intercepting and decoding German communications.

Churchill was focused on the big picture, which may or may not have been some consolation to the families of the over 1,000 English civilians killed.

Monday Before My Logic Test Quote

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

-Albert Einstein

Medieval Barber

So, you have a hernia? Hmm, we're not really sure how to fix that. But we have noticed that eunuchs don't get hernias, so we're pretty sure we have a surgical option that will cure you of the hernia problem. See, what we're going to do is cut off your gonads. Now, wait a minute, I don't think you're thinking this through very well. Who's the barber here? I mean, do you want to live with the hernia, or do you want to find a cure? Very well, then. We'll schedule the surgery as soon as possible.

In the 5th Century, testicular castration became a "cure" for hernias. Of course, the eunuch population that was seen without hernias was a small sample, but doctors were groping for any way to treat the problem. Castration became a panacea for many medical ailments in Europe until the nineteenth century. One eighteenth century doctor wrote of a castrator who had so many clients that her dog was fed entirely on the surgically removed bits.

Question For Ya

In the six Star Wars movies, did a Storm Trooper ever hit anyone with a blaster that was not a droid?

Thursday Quote

Hmm.

"Wherever Islam went, it did not destroy the local culture, but transformed it into an Islamic reality. What were rejected were elements of a clearly un-Islamic nature."

-Seyyed Hossein Nasr

November 3, 1883

Black Bart makes his final stagecoach robbery.

He was a poet, you know.

Thursday Quote

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

*November 2, 1917

The Balfour Declaration sets the wheels in motion for a Jewish homeland.

And it's still controversial.

*Wednesday Quote

"It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just."

-Judge Rose Elizabeth Bird

*November 1, 1765

The most well-remembered Stamp Act went into effect on this date.

It did not go over well.

*Tuesday Quote

"Education is not preparation for life. Education is life itself."

-John Dewey